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USA Now an Innovation Also-Ran — 11th in World

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Like last year, the continued slide (we were #1 in 2013) is due mostly to lack of investment in hard science, manufacturing, and technology education. Austria comes in at #10. Now, the USA has fallen to 11th in the annual ranking of innovation by country. See the Bloomberg Innovation Index report for 2020 here. What should we do?

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Austrian Entrepreneurs Visit Austin

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News A group of technology entrepreneurs from Austria visited Austin this week as part of a U.S. State Department International Visitors Leadership program. Alexa Wesner, the U.S.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

But it is not enough to simply have technology tools and risk capital in hand to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem. Why is this the case? For Salzburg to succeed as an innovation hub, it is essential for local private sector business leaders to make a long-term, active, and visible commitment to be active partners in this process.

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